Max D
@dissentertainer.bsky.social
Cofounder/Executive Officer at ArtsPool / Urban gardener 🌱 Opinions are my own.
The Dog That Hasn't Barked Yet would have been a really good children's book title but alas now it can never be.
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Dog That Hasn't Barked Yet would have been a really good children's book title but alas now it can never be.
It's time for Governors and state Attorneys General to look seriously at ways to stop remitting funds to the federal government in the first place. The point of a Federal gov't is mutual aid, and if they break that social contract we should pull out all of the stops to take care of our own people.
These bastards are demanding states claw back money they sent to SNAP recipients. They really want people to starve.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's time for Governors and state Attorneys General to look seriously at ways to stop remitting funds to the federal government in the first place. The point of a Federal gov't is mutual aid, and if they break that social contract we should pull out all of the stops to take care of our own people.
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Funny how the billionaires are falling all over themselves to donate large sums to the government rather than just…whats the word?…oh yeah, paying taxes like everyone else.
This is obviously illegal. It is also very stupid. An unconstrained executive will quickly learn that the best way to pay for the government is to call together all of the billionaires and ask them who wants to demonstrate their patriotism the most
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Funny how the billionaires are falling all over themselves to donate large sums to the government rather than just…whats the word?…oh yeah, paying taxes like everyone else.
She is what Santa puts in the naughty kids’ stockings.
struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age
![u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal:
"She's an icon
She's a legend
And she is the moment
[sparkly picture of coal]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwks525g7gw5wc7ul2wg4wj5/bafkreiemlnocjpmihyy2yegdsvokmpk3vdrwkvaqbgpopxqbb4bgiebtqm@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
She is what Santa puts in the naughty kids’ stockings.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
Mike Johnson has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever by returning from recess, impeaching both Trump and Vance for a cover up, and installing himself as POTUS. I don’t want Pres Johnson AT ALL, but that would be a power move.
Jen Psaki shows how Speaker Mike Johnson toggles his position on releasing Epstein documents like a switch:
July 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Mike Johnson has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever by returning from recess, impeaching both Trump and Vance for a cover up, and installing himself as POTUS. I don’t want Pres Johnson AT ALL, but that would be a power move.
Team “waste fraud and abuse” will be giving up their salary during this shutdown right? When you don’t show up to work you shouldn’t get paid.
US Speaker Mike Johnson announced he’s shutting down the House until September to block a vote on releasing the Epstein files. #OpDeathEaters
July 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Team “waste fraud and abuse” will be giving up their salary during this shutdown right? When you don’t show up to work you shouldn’t get paid.
Live shot of House GOP
July 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Live shot of House GOP
Live shot of DOJ “meeting” with Ghislane Maxwell.
July 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Live shot of DOJ “meeting” with Ghislane Maxwell.
I could have sworn that only Congress had the power to declare war.
June 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I could have sworn that only Congress had the power to declare war.
Tbh I’m excited at the prospect of our first bearded mayor in 112 years (and only the second since the five boroughs were consolidated in 1898). Apologies to David Dinkins’ mustache.
June 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Tbh I’m excited at the prospect of our first bearded mayor in 112 years (and only the second since the five boroughs were consolidated in 1898). Apologies to David Dinkins’ mustache.
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Climate impacts means lower yields and less land for food in the future, but what can we do? How do we provide healthy food using fewer inputs, less land, less capital etc?
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
Professor Paul Behrens: plenary talk, 2025 LEAP conference
YouTube video by LEAP
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Climate impacts means lower yields and less land for food in the future, but what can we do? How do we provide healthy food using fewer inputs, less land, less capital etc?
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
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What’s that condition called where you develop a psychological bond with your captor?
Trump and Musk would love a shutdown.
We must not give them one.
From me in @NYTimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
We must not give them one.
From me in @NYTimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Opinion | Chuck Schumer: Trump and Musk Would Love a Shutdown. We Must Not Give Them One.
A government shutdown would lead to real pain for the American people.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
What’s that condition called where you develop a psychological bond with your captor?
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This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
These people need to go. WTF is wrong with Democrats? Get your people in line @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
These people need to go. WTF is wrong with Democrats? Get your people in line @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Might end up being a Trumpression and not just a mere Trumpcession.
Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
March 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Might end up being a Trumpression and not just a mere Trumpcession.
AI challenge: find the biggest tool in this photograph.
February 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
AI challenge: find the biggest tool in this photograph.
Congestion pricing is great. Mind your own damn business, US DOT.
Seriously though, what are they gonna do? Put NYC in jail?
Seriously though, what are they gonna do? Put NYC in jail?
Trump's DOT withdraws federal approval for New York City congestion pricing, as local/state officials signal they may sue to keep congestion pricing going: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/19/b...
BREAKING: Trump Withdraws Federal Approval for Congestion Pricing; Blows Hole in Transit Repair Budget - Streetsblog New York City
The $9 toll is a burden on "working class" residents, according to DOT Secretary Sean Duffy, who ignored the millions of working-class regional residents who depend on transit.
nyc.streetsblog.org
February 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Congestion pricing is great. Mind your own damn business, US DOT.
Seriously though, what are they gonna do? Put NYC in jail?
Seriously though, what are they gonna do? Put NYC in jail?
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Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
Make 👏 them 👏 explain 👏 what 👏 they 👏 mean 👏 by 👏 DEI 👏. Make them speak the racism and misogynism and homophobia into the microphone.
January 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Make 👏 them 👏 explain 👏 what 👏 they 👏 mean 👏 by 👏 DEI 👏. Make them speak the racism and misogynism and homophobia into the microphone.
We have a choice to accept the “DEI is illegally, actually” framing or reject it out of hand. The most shocking thing about the last 48 hours is how quickly institutions are moving to strategically and uncritically adapt to that framing. If Costco can smack this down, so can others.
Every single report on the Trump funding freeze — every report on Medicare portal, Head Start, homeless veterans programs — needs to mention immediately WHY. The freeze is in order to complete an ideological purge of so-called “woke” programming. This is IMPORTANT, y’all.
January 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We have a choice to accept the “DEI is illegally, actually” framing or reject it out of hand. The most shocking thing about the last 48 hours is how quickly institutions are moving to strategically and uncritically adapt to that framing. If Costco can smack this down, so can others.
Someone should do an analysis of the collective drain of this nonsense on U.S. productivity and GDP.
January 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Someone should do an analysis of the collective drain of this nonsense on U.S. productivity and GDP.